| A Year at 50 Streeten began this series of cartoons after turning 50 as a way of reflecting on the day to day experience of life as an older woman. Hounded by the same old questions and dilemmas, as well as a few new ones, the cartoons document family life. These are based on Nicola’s own family, including husband John, teenage daughter Sally and Holly the dog RIP. http://nicolastreeten. wordpress.com/category/ayearat50/ |
Writer/Creator: Nicola Streeten Nicola is an anthropologist-turned-illustrator and comics scholar. Her graphic memoir, Billy, Me & You, about bereavement following the death of her two-year old son was published by Myriad Editions in 2011. It is the first published long form graphic memoir by a British woman and received a British Medical Association Award in 2012. Her second graphic novel, Hymn, a fiction exploring issues around abortion, will be published in 2015. Currently Nicola is working on a PhD at the University of Sussex on British feminist comics for which she has been awarded an Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship. She is co-founder of Laydeez do Comics, a unique graphic novel salon with national and international branches. www.streetenillustration.com Blog: http://nicolastreeten. wordpress.com/ Contact: nicola@streetenillustration.com |
Guest Artist: Richy K. Chandler Richy is the creative force behind Tempo Lush, producing comics, illustrations and design. He’s written for the Wallace & Gromit newspaper strip and Almost Naked Animals and Adventure Time comics. Richy is creator of Lucy the Octopus and co-creator of Rosie and Jacinda. He is the originator / editor of WASP and teaches comic creation to children and adults. |
A Year at 50 normally looks more like this…
